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Last Updated: Mar 26, 2009 - 10:29:12 AM |
A Terrible Picture: Chinese Military and Police Beating Tibetans to Death
From Woeser's Hidden Tibet blog (original Chinese language text at
http://woeser.middle-way.net/2009/03/blog-post_21.html )
可怕的画面:中国军警残暴殴打藏人致死
March 21, 2009
At the two links below is a seven minute video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiZL9zvQ3Sc
http://media.phayul.com/?av_id=147&av_links_id=323
The video records the extreme cruelty arrested Tibetans have been
subjected to by the Chinese military and police since March 14, 2008.
Beaten Tibetans who can no longer move are spread out on the ground.
Some Tibetan monks wearing their red robes are on the ground, not moving
at all.
Between them a boy is crying…..
Tendar is called in Chinese Danda or Tanda. He is still young,
20-30 years of age. A resident of Lhasa. He is a manager in the
customer service department of the Tibet mobile telephone company.
I heard his tragic story last year in early March. It was so tragic, it
was hard to believe. Recently, some Tibetans made a recording about his
treatment and a story to accompany them that I had not heard before,
eyewitness accounts of extremely cruel treatment of people that compel
belief.
“One mother’s child was an employee of the Tibetan telecommunications company. On March 14, on his way home from the office, he was several People’s Armed
Police beating an unarmed elderly monk. He could not but beg the PAP to
have mercy. But those PAP punched and kicked him. He was hit until he
was bleeding from the head and then taken away. For a long time, nobody
knew whether he was living or dead.”
His mother was a retired nurse. She mobilized everyone she knew and
checked everywhere to find out what had happened to her son. She finally
found that her son was being held at a detention center in Lhasa. When
she finally found her son, she saw a terrible sight. Her son, all
bloodied was wrapped in plastic and placed on the concrete cell floor.
One of his legs was cut with many bloody knife wounds and a nail had
been driven in to a toenail on his right foot. A great deal of flesh had
been cut away from his bottom, where the would was rotting and infested
with insects. Where his waist had been beaten with electric batons, the
flesh had started to decay. There were many wounds on his back and on
his face. One of the wounds were covered with transparent tape. Because
he had not received any medical care, he was already on the verge of death.
The heart-broken mother had her child rushed to a hospital. The Lhasa
Military District Hospital is Lhasa’s best hospital, but did not dare
give her son immediate treatment and indeed purposely put her off. Then
he was transferred to the TAR People’s Hospital. During his emergency
treatment, it was necessary to remove 2.5 kilograms of flesh that had
already become severely decayed from his buttocks. However, his wounds
were too severe and he was unable to recover, so there was no
alternative but to sent him back to his home near the Drepung Monastery
where his mother took care of him. Finally on June 19, this suffering
Tibetan youth died.
Several hundred Tibetans came to his funeral services. Many came out of
deep sympathy for a stranger who suffered a terrible tragedy. At the
funeral service, the mother of this youth said sadly, “I cry not only
for my son who died a tragic death, I cry even more for those sons who
are being tortured. As a mother, I can't imagine the torments and
suffering my son endured in prison....” Where her son was given to the
vultures in the traditional Tibetan burial ceremony, she discovered a
nail that had been driven into his foot.
Now that mother lives under close police surveillance and cannot have
any contact with the outside world. Some people say that she went crazy
because of the great blow that she suffered. News of this cruel tragedy
has spread through all of Lhasa, very many Tibetans had head about it,
and feel great sadness and resentment about it.
On April 2, 2008, Zhang Qingli, the top Chinese Communist Party official
in Tibet said on television about the repression actions said “the
forces taking part in the battle are brave and fight well” and praised
them highly for “Obeying the directives of the Party, serving the
people, and for being a brave army composed of the sons and younger
brothers of the people.” From this video, we can see just how “brave and
well” the “forces taking part in the battle” are fighting.
June 19, the day the innocent Tibetan youth Tendar died a cruel death,
was the day before the Beijing Olympic Torch arrived in Lhasa.
How many other Tibetans are locked away behind dark curtains, who like
Tendar, suffered a cruel, inhumane violent treatment at the hands of the
government's state apparatus? How many more Tibetan tragedies are there
that the world doesn't know about? People of conscience, if they still
have a conscience, please speak out about the tragic fate of the Tibetan
people!
Therefore, this short video is a very valuable historical document. Most
unfortunate, however, is that it is very hard to see this video on the
Youtube and Phayul websites. The speed is slow and it is often blocked
and hard to download (it took me three hours to see the entire 7 plus
minutes of video. This may be because people in China who want to see
this video must jump over the wall (that is they must use a proxy
server), that we encounter these kinds of difficulties. I don't know if
there could be a better method, that would enable use to see this video
more easily?
Beijing, March 21, 2009
The picture is the Tibetan youth Tendar who was killed by the Chinese military
and police
Full Chinese report at: http://woeser.middle-way.net/2009/03/blog-post_21.html
© Copyright 2009 by Boxun News
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